May 27, 2013, Monday

JOE MANTELLO was a 22-year-old actor, trained in the classics and fresh to New York, when he set out for the Public Theater one snowy night in 1985 to see ''The Normal Heart,'' Larry Kramer's play about the first years of AIDS. Watching the...

''Are you the playwright?'' the young woman asked the bearded, bespectacled older man who was handing out fliers on Sunday night under the marquee of Broadway's Golden Theater. Indeed he was: At age 75, after decades trying to find a bigger platform...

April 26, 2011, Tuesday

Larry Kramer, the playwright making his Broadway debut with “The Normal Heart,” is taking up an unusual new role: handing out letters outside performances of his play reminding theatergoers that the story is real and that H.I.V. and AIDS are...

One star can only do so much at once on Broadway, even if he's Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey. On Thursday the 78-year-old Mr. Grey (''Cabaret'') will begin preview performances as Moonface Martin in the Roundabout Theater Company's...